A vinaigrette of historical footage from past years. Issue 166

A small selection of photographs from different European countries during the 20th century. The photographs allow us to touch this difficult, but hope-inspiring period of history and look at the life of other countries.





A Majorcan woman, 1930.

A resident of Majorca in a national costume. Looks like a teapot on a samovar or a matryoshka doll.



Seaweed collector. France, 1951.

He collects seaweed, but his cap and head are not turned to sea.



Sausage tree at the international food exhibition in Berlin, 1976.

And at that time we had, unfortunately, "sausage" electric trains.



Delivery of coal to the 5th floor. France, 1917.

During the First World War, girls and women did men's work: they put out fires, carried coal, and made shells.



In the village of Volendam, Netherlands, 1947.

An incredibly atmospheric and beautiful photo, and the sea breeze is transmitted right through the screen.



Procession from the church and monastery complex in the Alps, Italy, 1920s.



Preparing for evening lighting on Leidseplein, Amsterdam, 1956.

Leidseplein is located in the southwest of Amsterdam. During the daytime, you can visit many entertainment venues. These include art cafes, theaters and cinemas.



The Troubles, Northern Ireland, Londonderry, 1971.

This photo was taken by the famous Sir Don McCullin, a legendary war photographer who has documented almost all major conflicts in the last 60 years, from the Vietnam War to the events in Syria.



Traffic in The Hague, 1955.



A man with skates near a buoy on Lake IJsselmeer, Netherlands.



A big Greek wedding. Kastoria, filmed between 1898 and 1912.

It's good that the bride marked herself in white, otherwise it would be easy to get lost in such a crowd.

At first it might seem like a Turkish wedding. Apparently the neighborhood has an effect.

Nowadays, modern youth prefer not to have a lavish wedding, but to quietly sign the registry office and sit in a restaurant with their closest people.



Amalfi Coast, Italy, 1966.



Traditional Spain, 1979.

Yawning people in photographs is the photographer's signature style. The works of Cristina Garcia Rodero travel around the world and the exhibition is called "Open Mouth".



Models demonstrate clothes from the company "Adidas", 1985.



Arc de Triomphe in Paris, 1949.



Training.

Austrian soldiers learn to milk using a special simulator at a military school, 1935.

Too simple: it won't kick or wave its tail.



A tour of London for Germans, 1930.

At that moment in Germany there was interwar devastation, inflation, poverty and Clara Zetkin. Many people and political forces in Germany blamed the Entente countries for this, which humiliated and robbed the German Empire with the unfair conditions of the Versailles Treaty from the German point of view. This explains the stern eyes of the young German woman watching the British getting rich at her expense.

Or maybe the German woman just didn't like London.



Young farmers. Germany, 1926.



The huge ship "Britannic" at the Harland & Wolff shipyard, 1914.

Britannic, Olympic and Titanic belong to the same type of ocean liners - Olympic. But the fate of Britannic is not much different from Titanic.

During the First World War, it was converted into a floating hospital. In 1915-1916, the steamer took the wounded from the combat zone in the eastern Mediterranean to England. On November 21, 1916, the liner hit a mine in the Aegean Sea and sank.



A donkey in a Citroën 2CV minicar. France, circa 1950.

There haven't been fewer donkeys on the roads in all these years.